Brench Boden Chief Technology Officer

Brench Boden is the lead for the Advanced Manufacturing Enterprise technical area in the Air Force Manufacturing Technology Program. His responsibilities include strategic planning, technology roadmapping, and program development across a diverse technical spectrum that includes information integration tools and standards, modeling and simulation, factory automation, design analysis tools, and supply chain management.

Brench has been in the DoD manufacturing technology community since 1990, during which time he has developed numerous award-winning programs in acquisition reform, implementation of lean production, tools for integration technology, and supply chain management.

UI LABS solves large-scale challenges by bringing University + Industry together with startups and government to accelerate the deployment of emerging technologies through collaboration. UI LABS is developing a portfolio of applied research and commercialization Labs that lead to a return on investment for its partners, improve local, regional and national competitiveness, and transform entire industries. Across its current Labs, UI LABS has over 300 members from industry, academic and research institutions, states and cities, and community organizations.

In February 2014, UI LABS announced the formation of its first Lab, the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII), through collaboration with the Department of Defense and a host of other partners, to transform American manufacturing through digitization of the supply chain. Learn more at www.dmdii.org.

UI LABS’ second Lab, City Digital, launched in 2015 to digitize the built environment to transform how citizens live, work, and play in cities today and tomorrow. Learn more at www.citydigital.org.